Ethiopia’s Growing Assault on Independent Media

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Click to expand Image People read newspapers and magazines on a street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 7, 2020.

© 2020 Samuel Habtab/AP Photo Ethiopian authorities are intensifying their assault on media freedom in the country.On August 1, unidentified security personnel detained Yonas Kedir, the editor-in-chief of Addis Standard, and questioned him for 24 hours about the independent…

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Source & verification

Primary source: Human Rights Watch News · August 6, 2026

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